Word: holleran
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This "retroactive" plague, as Andrew Holleran calls the AIDS epidemic in Ground Zero (Morrow; 228 pages; $16.95), is causing not only panic but a radical change in sensibilities. Phrases like "oral sex" and "anal penetration," once startling to read outside hard-covers, are now routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports. "Making love," one of the sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe...
...Holleran's collection of essays and Paul Monette's memoir of his dying lover, Borrowed Time (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 342 pages; $18.95), are reports from the combat zone. They are far more personalized than Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On (1987), a survey of the medical, political and social impact of AIDS. Holleran and Monette stand waist-deep in the wreckage of homosexual society, particularly that mayfly culture that soared during the '70s and plunged abruptly when the virus struck hard at the beginning...
Stephanie Clark and Jenny Holleran were also named All-America and All-Ivy. Co-Captain Lucy Miller snagged All-Ivy recognition...
Edge secured the top ranked amatuer position with a four-game victory over Holleran in the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Championship at Dartmouth earlier this month...
Next year, Holleran, Morrissey and Liz Reynolds will replace Edge and Miller as captains...